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Small Business Training to Improve Management Practices in D...
This paper revisits and reassesses the evidence for whether small business training works, incorporating the results of recent studies. A meta-analysis of these estimates suggests that training increa...
Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment: Private Sector Engag...
This landscaping study researched the drivers of company investment in increasing women’s participation, focusing on evidence for the impact of company policies, practices, and programs. More specific...
Exploring the Role of Public Expenditure in Advancing Female...
This paper discusses connections between female economic empowerment and government spending. It offers a preliminary exploration of key factors and indicators associated with gender-differentiated im...
Women’s Empowerment, Gender Budgeting, and Intersection with...
Gender inequality carries significant economic costs by keeping women from realizing their full potential. Moreover, climate change threatens to exacerbate gender inequalities around the world further...
Gender-Response Climate Governance and the Role of Women Lea...
This study explores the intersection between climate governance and gender diversity and inclusion (gender D&I) in companies based in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). It is designed ...
Gender-Inclusive Legislative Framework and Laws to Strengthe...
Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. The report provides a ...
How Well do Economic Empowerment Efforts Prevent Intimate Pa...
The Word Bank’s South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab has conducted an evidence review of findings from women’s economic empowerment (WEE) interventions with direct measures of intimate partner viol...
How Well Do Economic Empowerment Efforts Prevent Child Marri...
The World Bank’s South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab has conducted an evidence review of findings on economic empowerment interventions with direct measures of child marriage (CM) in South Asia (S...
Placing Gender Equality at the Center of Climate Action (202...
Focusing on the intersection of gender equality and climate change, this World Bank Gender Group policy note stresses the importance of empowering women and their leadership in climate action and addr...
Stories from the Field Episode 1: Women’s Groups in South As...
Our first two guest speakers Thomas de Hoop and Sapna Desai present their recent work to create a typology of women’s groups in South Asia. In addition, they shed light on the history of women’s group...
Empowering Low-Income Urban Women in Bangladesh through Digi...
Adapting Skills Training to Address Constraints to Women's P...
This Jobs Solutions Note identifies practical solutions for development practitioners to design and implement skills training programs that improve outcomes for women, providing key lessons, solutions...